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“Given the lack of folklore materials that could retrospectively illuminate the Slavic-Scythian relations of the 7th – 3rd centuries BC, one should turn to...

“On his return journey , besides Colchis, we can note another region whose narrative conveys a "presence effect." Herodotus several times mentions the city...

“Having obtained indisputable data on Herodotus's sea voyage around the Crimean Peninsula, confirming the high accuracy of his measurements, we must return to those...

“We have more compelling evidence of Herodotus's advance east of Pontic Olbia. Herodotus begins his account of Scythia's geography from the northwestern coast of...

"Scythia is a quadrangle, two sides of which reach the sea, and the line running inland is the same length as the one that...

Renown Scythologyst Dr. Dmitry Raevsky (1941-2004) observed: “There is a curious motif on the gold appliques from Kul-Oba and on the silver appliques from the...

Napoleon's Letter to Alexander I of Russia: "Monsieur, my brother: Having been informed that the brother of your Imperial Majesty's Minister at Cassel was in...

Do you want an example of a perverted logic of international scale? Here it is: In 2014 Putin annexes Crimea, part of Ukraine, on the grounds that Kyiv (!)...

Modern Russian as well as former Soviet propagandists have been trying to imply that the USSR began to form its armies only after World...

In the 1890s, while excavating an Upper Paleolithic site in central Kyiv, Czech archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika discovered artifacts of a later civilization. The pieces of pottery...

“If this child stays in the world, he will become a great all-wheeled king in the future, and if he goes home, he will...

One of the engineers laying the foundation of the Apollo systems in 1962 was Michael Yarymovych, born Mikhail Yarymovych in pre-WWII Ukraine. In his...

The third largest Norwegian city is Trondheim. It is best known for being linked to unruly Viking kings but now it turns out to become...

According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...

So, how did Moscow reward the Ukrainian Cossacks for saving its Black Sea Fleet and defeating the Turks? A decade after the event, Dr....

"Baida" in Ukrainian means an easy-going, somewhat mischevious person. There are several Ukrainian folk songs devoted to baida. Like this one for xample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfkcDElc8Nk&ab_channel=TarasZhytynsky And...

" Shevchenko has never been one of the best farms because its land is not of the first quality, but before the war it...

Adam Higginbotham in his prize-winning Midnight in Chernobyl writes the following: “On Wednesday, April 30—the eve of the annual May Day celebrations, which would fill the...